Photos: Winter 2008-2009: Conflict in Gaza

Gaza Strip

Khalil Hamra / Associated Press

A Palestinian youth attending a summer camp run by Hamas places a flag of the organization's youth movement on a house in Jabaliya refugee camp that was destroyed during the Israeli assault in December-January. Youths helod a protest against the Israeli blockade on Gaza that has caused shortages of nearly all goods.

A Palestinian youth attending a summer camp run by Hamas places a flag of the organization's youth movement on a house in Jabaliya refugee camp that was destroyed during the Israeli assault in December-January. Youths helod a protest against the Israeli blockade on Gaza that has caused shortages of nearly all goods. (Khalil Hamra / Associated Press)

A Hamas policeman watches as Palestinian workers use clay bricks to build a police station in the Gaza Strip district of Beit Lahiya. Palestinians are making adobe bricks  using sand, clay, and water, with some fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, dung)  as the Israeli blockade has barred construction materials.

A Hamas policeman watches as Palestinian workers use clay bricks to build a police station in the Gaza Strip district of Beit Lahiya. Palestinians are making adobe bricks  using sand, clay, and water, with some fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, dung)  as the Israeli blockade has barred construction materials. (Marco Longari / AFP/Getty Images)